Not exactly on topic, but my sis-in-law thought her neighbors were using her wi-fi and she asked me to lock it down. Logged onto her laptop, got into the router, changed the name, locked it up, and checked that I could still connect to it.

I could connect, but every couple of minutes it would lose the connection. So I asked her where it was so I could check it. It turns out HER router was unplugged, she'd been using her neighbor's wifi, and I'd just locked them out. They must have been power cycling it to fix the connection. So I set it back how I found it and locked hers down.

I set up "Sailing in the seas of Wifi" a while back, I figured only my mates would get a little chuckle out of it. A few months later, a neighbour changed his to "Jerry was a Wifi Driver". Had a few beers with the guy since.

The owner of our company was in town last year and needed to connect to the office wifi; she said, "Um, is this our wifi?" In addition to ours and some others that obviously belonged to building tenants was "Pussy Wagon," so thanks, Pussy Wagon people, for making me have that special moment with the boss.

My Ex had ours set up as Skynet for the longest time. The last time I stopped by his place and tossed the last of his stuff on his door step he still had it set up as Skynet which my phone instantly connected too.

Ours is a message to our neighbors, who have the "Dog Lovers" router. Ours is named "Shut Your Dogs Up" since they bark all hours of the day and night. Hasn't gotten the message across yet. Ahh, passive aggressiveness.

Past names for my routers include "Anal Seepage", "Pedorama", "Pedopalooza", and "Google Blue Waffle". That last one, I hope, hurt some neighbors, since they deserved it ;)

CSB time. Somehow my router reset itself, and in the 10 minutes it was open, a neighbor connected to the router. Checked the DHCP clients table, noticed there was a new computer named "Jenna" on my network. Changed my SSID to "Jenna is a whore" . . . . Left it that way for about 8 months.

I am typically one of the FBI van variants, but after reading this thread and thinking about my neighborhood (Tons of old, white republicans with Romney signs all over). I think I will change mine to something akin to "Obamas free WiFi service"

Mine is the now stunningly unoriginal FBI Surveillance Vehicle 0D9, and it's wide open! (But you can only connectif I have your MAC, so too bad).

I wish Routers would let me send out a message when connections fail. I just want it to say "Login attemp detected. Activity logged" or some nonsense like "Scanning for Pornography. Plese keep PC powered on. Thank you."

Lincey:CSB time. Somehow my router reset itself, and in the 10 minutes it was open, a neighbor connected to the router. Checked the DHCP clients table, noticed there was a new computer named "Jenna" on my network. Changed my SSID to "Jenna is a whore" . . . . Left it that way for about 8 months.

Lol, I remember when my neighbor's router was down for a while and they requested access to mine until they got their fixed. After one day of use I randomly kept kicking them out and told them my internet was acting up as well. They fixed their router real fast after that.

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There's one nearby called LCARS, and while I appreciated the reference it isn't very clever. If there's someone nearby (or you have a neighbour who wants in on the joke) you name one of yours FBI mobile surveillance and the other does Al Qaeda spy network. I've seen a ton of funny ones over the years and I know I'm forgetting a lot of really good ones.

I would prefer not to have people even screwing with my 4G cellular access point, so I named the wireless network PASSWORD_SNIFFER. I figure nobody's going to try connecting to that. Maybe I'm wrong, who knows.

My phone's Mobile Hotspot was "FBI Surveillance Van #2" for a while. It was entertaining to sit in the bar and see people looking at their phones, then out the door, and getting nervous.

I eventually changed it. Now it says "Justin Beiber Limousine Wi-fi" If i leave it open, plenty of people connect to it, surprisingly, a lot of them aren't teenage girls, and if i do password protect it, it's amusing to see if people notice and point it out.

Next week's will be "It hurts when IP" I'm also considering "FREE 10gb WIFI" with a password on it.

Soon I'll be getting a new computer and will be setting up my first wi-fi network at home, and I'm already agonizing over what to name it. The pop culture choices are nearly endless, but I figure things like Skynet and HAL_9000 have probably been done to death by now. I also figured anything Star Trek or Star Wars related would be old hat, but judging from this thread, maybe not.

My father and I are huge P.G. Wodehouse fans. One year for his birthday I got him the Jeeves & Wooster box set. We just vegged in front of his new TV and we could not have been happier. There is nothing like seeing the Drones have a rugby scrum indoors.

To the original topic: my cell's wifi is "billionaire pr0n", which no longer seems as smart after reading this list. I was eating brunch at the foot of the Hollywood Hills (Pinches on the Strip, not the dysfunctional one in Culver City) and assuming that one of the wealthy people in the hillside mansions was peeping on us with our normal lives. There would be a guy in front of his telescope, furiously cranking and muttering, "he's eating eggs with salsa! Oh god yeah, yeah, YEAH, that's great... he wipes his mouth with... ungh... a paper napkin... yeah, gotta film this..."

/rule 34 corollary: something you never think about doing is someone else's fetish//unable to choose a stylus at the computer store? Oh yeah...

DarkDeepMoon:My Ex had ours set up as Skynet for the longest time. The last time I stopped by his place and tossed the last of his stuff on his door step he still had it set up as Skynet which my phone instantly connected too.